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Event Sponsors

  • Keith & Jennifer Gardiner
  • Chevron
  • Keathley, Maxwell & Antongiovanni
  • Majestic Realty Co.
  • Grimmway Enterprises, Inc.
  • Jim Burke Ford Lincoln Mercury Jaguar
  • Klein DeNatale Goldner Cooper Rosenlieb & Kimball
  • Pros Inc.
  • San Joaquin Refining Company
  • Valley Republic Bank
  • Bellisima Medical Aesthetics
  • Bolthouse Properties, LLC
  • Marchant Site Development, Inc.
  • McIntosh & Associates
  • N2 Publishing
  • Tyrion Integration
  • Valley Public Radio
  • Walker-Lewis Rents
 

Online Bidding with Greater Giving


What You Can Expect

This year’s auction will use Greater Giving Online Bidding – allowing for a paperless bidding system. You will bid using your smartphone or tablet on silent auction items. Also, you can easily track Packages by “following” their activity without having to continuously return to a table or bid sheet. 

How to Mobile Bid with Greater Giving Online Bidding

  1. Register your smartphone and credit card information on our registration page in advance of the event or upon arrival.
  2. Once your smartphone is registered, you will receive an automated ‘Welcome’ text with your bidder URL. If you do not receive a text message, see a volunteer or staff member.
  3. After clicking the URL in the text, confirm your name when prompted and begin searching for silent auction packages by number, keyword, or category.
  4. Select the package you wish to bid on.
  5. You can bid the next increment, set a max bid, or simply “Watch” packages. If you enter the highest max bid on a package, the system will automatically place bids in your favor until your max bid is reached or until the silent auction closes. If your bid is lower than the highest max bid on that package, you will be prompted to enter a higher bid.
  6. To purchase a package at the Buy Now price, select the Buy Now button.
  7. To make a general donation, select the Donation button on your home screen and choose a pre-set amount or select the Custom Amount button to enter the amount you wish to donate and select OK.
  8. If you’re outbid at any point before the silent auction closes, you’ll be notified by text message.
  9. You can keep an eye on packages you’ve bid on or are watching by selecting the menu button and selecting the “My List” button located at the left
  10. As soon as the silent auction closes, the guest with the highest bid will win.
  11. Under “My List” you can check your winning packages. 
 

OUR GOAL

CASA of Kern County's goal is to protect and insure each child's right to a safe, permanent home. These children have come into the Juvenile Dependency court system as the victims of abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. Their caretakers have been unable to keep them safe, so social services and the legal systems have entered their lives.

Because of our unique one on one advocacy, CASA volunteers can provide information to the Court that is not usually available. The large number of cases filed in Juvenile Court, along with dwindling resources available to investigate cases, the judges often make decisions based on less than objective data. The CASA volunteer's objective, unbiased recommendation to support the best interests of the child, is an invaluable asset to the Judge.